Word: romneys
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...named his closest friends and then filled up the remaining slots with men who would probably not have been national figures in any other Republican Administration. Politicians who had once tried to establish a base beyond their own constituencies were selected only if their attempt failed completely--Governor George Romney, who will be Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, dropped out of the Presidential race against Nixon before the first primary, and Governor John Volpe, who will head the Department of Transportation, was trounced in his favorite-son bid for the Massachusetts primary by a last-minute Rockefeller write...
...other members of the Urban Council will be Romney, who will have trouble articulating any plans he does develop, and Volpe. Employees in Volpe's department, who have been trying to develop comprehensive mass transit programs, already have visions of Inner Belts tearing through central cities in the next four years...
...Bank, and Arthur Burns, a chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under Ike, were both reasonable bets for Secretary of the Treasury. Republican National Chairman Ray Bliss may become Postmaster General, which would let Nixon put his own man atop the G.O.P. apparatus. Michigan's Governor George Romney or Pennsylvania's Governor Raymond Shafer could be named Secretary of Commerce...
...final margin was embarrassingly short of that estimate. To be sure, the smooth success of his early campaign strategy gave ample reason for optimism. Determined to shuck his loser's image, he entered six primaries, won them all- frightening off Michigan's Governor George Romney before the balloting even began in New Hampshire, and forcing New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller into fatal blunders of indecision. California's Governor Ronald Reagan was never a real threat; besides, after the 1964 Goldwater disaster, the G.O.P.'s centrist and progressive wings wanted nothing more to do with...
...INDIANA. Republican Edgar D. Whitcomb, 50, is a trim (6 ft., 180 Ibs.) George Romney look-alike whose wife Pat is widely regarded as the prettiest woman on the Indiana political scene. A bomber navigator in World War II, Whitcomb was captured by the Japanese, later wrote a book called Escape from Corregidor, which he distributed by the thousands during his campaign. In his race against Lieutenant Governor Robert L. Rock, the Democratic nominee, conservative Whitcomb promised to veto any rise in state taxes, even though the Indiana treasury is bare...